Related Clues:

• If it breaks, things get wet
• Flood blocker
• It holds back the water in Holland
• Structure with high-water marks
• Bank in need of support?
• Bad place for a breach
• Earthen dike
• Dyke
• Riverside structure
• Morning reception once held by monarch
• First lady squeezed in the French reception
• The first woman to be employed in the French bank
• Reception the French hold the day before a festival
• Raising of money, say, to provide protection for bank
• Retaining embankment